Top Chef 16, Episode 4 | Surprise…It’s Restaurant Wars

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Unpack your knives and stay! It’s time to take an amuse bouche-esque bite into the Top Chef Judges Round Table, only on Reality TV RHAP-Ups. Mike Bloom, Antonio Mazzaro, Emily Fox, and Haley Strong talk through the surprise-filled introduction to this season’s Restaurant Wars, including jacuzzi hubris, watermelon dreams, and dishes the size of a Snapple cap.

Mike Bloom is a Manhattanite and a podcaster for various shows on Rob Has a Podcast and Post Show Recaps, along with the long-running Survivor Historians podcast. He was voted "Most Likely to Be a Hufflepuff" by every person he's ever met. Mike also once tried to emulate a hip hop dancer in a Wendy's commercial. Twitter: @AMikeBloomType.

Antonio Mazzaro is a Kentuckian, Lawyer, and Radio/TV/Film graduate of Northern Kentucky University--but he would love it if you didn't hold any of those things against him. Liverpool FC, My Morning Jacket, and the Cincinnati Bearcats are a few of his favorite things. The TV character he would most like to emulate is his hero, Mr. Rogers. Follow Antonio on Twitter: @acmazzaro.